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David T.

Executive & Technical Recruiter | Passive Talent Sourcing | 10+ Years

10+ years recruiting | 13,000+ LinkedIn network | Passive sourcing specialist I help companies find hard-to-reach candidates for roles that are difficult to fill through traditional job postings. I bring 10+ years of recruiting and sourcing experience across technology, engineering, finance, accounting, sales, professional services, and executive-level searches. My background includes recruiting for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), where I partnered with senior leaders and technical teams to recruit highly specialized professionals, including engineers with machine learning backgrounds. My strength is passive talent sourcing. I know how to identify people who are already successful in their current roles, approach them directly, and turn cold prospects into interested candidates. I can support clients with: • Full-cycle recruiting • Passive candidate sourcing and outreach • Executive and senior-level search • Technical and engineering recruiting • Sales and business development recruiting • Finance and accounting recruiting • Talent mapping and pipeline development • Candidate screening and evaluation • Recruiting strategy and process development Recent projects have included hiring SaaS Account Executives, building targeted engineering and technical pipelines, recruiting senior finance professionals, and supporting searches where traditional recruiting methods were not producing the right candidates. I use targeted market research, direct sourcing, AI-assisted recruiting tools, and personalized outreach to build qualified pipelines quickly. I am comfortable owning the entire search or working alongside an internal talent acquisition team that needs additional sourcing capacity. Clients typically bring me in when a role has been difficult to fill, their internal recruiting team needs additional capacity, or they need someone who will proactively go into the market and find the right people rather than wait for applications. If you have a difficult search, send me the role. I’m happy to take a look at the market and discuss how I would approach it.

🇺🇸Chicago, United States$60/hr100% JSS5.00 (6)Since Dec 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.1k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#43,584 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#7,534 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.5k

Last 6 months: $6.7k

World#15,797 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,643 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$19k

Billed in all: $20k

World#146,434 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#24,139 / 62.1k
Per project
$1.2k

$1.1k in the last 6 months

World#108,322 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#18,460 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
6

Across 7 contracts

29% fixed71% hourly
World#34,405 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,906 / 62.1k
Projects in all
15

Across 20 contracts

25% fixed75% hourly
World#161,377 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#23,182 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$19.8k+$2.5k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$16k$18k$20kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 11% in Sourcing

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